Davin Ophir

Davin Ophir (died 1942) was a Jewish elder who sat on the Jewish Council of the Baranovichi Ghetto in Belarus during World War II.

Biography
Davin Ophir was born in the Russian Empire to a family of Jews, and he became an influential figure in Baranovichi's Jewish community of 9,000 people. Nazi Germany decided to select him as one of the leaders of the Judenrat, the council which governed the Jews who were confined to the Baranovichi Ghetto. In 1942, he attempted to convince Jews to stay in the ghetto, as the Nazis killed 20 people for every person who fled. However, the Bielski Otriad succeeded in evacuating several Jews from the ghetto, and Ophir was likely killed when the ghetto was liquidated.